Abstract:

Unions which initially had an effect in a limited area of working life for protecting and promoting workers’ rights, increased their efficiency on society and poltics with democratic developments. Having an axis of conflict caused by ideological reasons in the beginning of the organization process, “union-politics” relationship turned into a mediating collaboration of mutual development of benefits, during the progressing process. Developed later than the unions of workers, unions of public employees’ relationship with the institution of politics is a more problematic issue in terms of the quality of the job and the functions of the unions. Some of these arguments are as followed; public employees are the essential and perpetual executives of the public services, they are obliged to do their offices objectively and the employer dimension of this working relationship is determined by the institution of politics. Obtained their legal infrastructure in 2000’s in Turkey, it’s seen that the public employees’ unions are in a rapid growth process to the contrary of workers’ unions. In this process, politically varied appearance of union confederations makes the “public office unionism- politics”

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